Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Internal Tools

SmartChoice International GCC; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 280,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartChoice International GCC in Riyadh seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build the shared technology foundation used by engineering teams to develop, integrate and operate modern applications.

This hands-on role spans platform architecture, backend services, developer tooling, APIs, cloud infrastructure and AI-enabled systems, with ownership of patterns, interfaces and standards that other engineers will rely on.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software, backend, platform or infrastructure engineering.
• Proven experience building and operating internal platforms, shared services or developer tooling in production.
• Strong hands-on experience with AI-enabled applications, agent systems or comparable technologies.
• Strong Python and Go development skills; Java or Node.js advantageous.
• Experience designing and building APIs and SDKs consumed by other engineering teams.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, asynchronous processing or multi-step service interactions.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and service architecture.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, OIDC/SSO and identity-aware services.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Crossplane.
• Strong understanding of reliability, security, scalability and operational trade-offs.
• A strong focus on developer experience, usability and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Design and build shared platform services, APIs, SDKs and engineering tooling.
• Develop orchestration capabilities for applications involving multiple services, tools, models and workflows.
• Build reliable interfaces that allow teams to consume shared capabilities consistently.
• Integrate AI models and supporting services into reusable platform capabilities.
• Develop secure, identity-aware services with authentication and authorisation enforced at the appropriate layer.
• Create reusable templates, libraries, examples and automation to accelerate application development.
• Provide common capabilities for both interactive applications and programmatic consumers.
• Establish standards for API design, service contracts, versioning, testing and observability.
• Build tracing, monitoring and operational controls into platform services.
• Work closely with infrastructure and application teams to ensure services are scalable, reliable and secure.
• Identify recurring engineering problems and turn them into reusable platform solutions.
• Improve developer experience by reducing friction and increasing self-service across engineering teams.
• Review code, document technical decisions and help establish engineering standards across the platform.

Skills

Python

Go

API design

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Security

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Crossplane

Job description

SmartChoice International GCC in Riyadh seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build the shared technology foundation used by engineering teams to develop, integrate and operate modern applications.

This hands-on role spans platform architecture, backend services, developer tooling, APIs, cloud infrastructure and AI-enabled systems, with ownership of patterns, interfaces and standards that other engineers will rely on.